what is masetupcleaner.exe

I'm sure you know that many, many programs on your machine are accessing the internet all of the time. I have to assume your firewall is alerting you to a new program that is trying to do so: MASetupCleaner.exe. I have told the COMODO firewall to block this program's access to the internet until I know what it does.

I don't really suspect the Kies software of doing sneaky things, but I do find it to be an extremely poor program. It was a nightmare to install it on both of my Win7 SP1 machines (one AMD, one Intel). Connections to the Samsung Galaxy phone are painful and iffy. The phone belongs to my partner. If I had known how much trouble Kies would cause, I would have told him not to buy this new phone 2 weeks ago. It never occurred to me that connection to a PC would be a problem, because his older Nokia 5800 phone connected so easily. Its software installed simply and worked. Meanwhile, Kies has stopped connecting altogether on one of my Win7 machines.

Meanwhile, I still do not know what MASetupCleaner.exe does. If you find out, please post here ... as will I.

I have also installed Samsung KEIS and drivers for Samsung Galaxy Note 2.  Did so on a Windows 8 and also Windows 7 System.  Both systems have MASetupCleaner.EXE in the Windows/SYSWOW64 Folder.  I have another Windows 8 system with very little installed.  I will install packages on that system until I see the culprit.

This would not bother me except every once in a while after a power up I get a message asking me to take action on MASetupCleaner I have always declined.  When I see it again I will try an be more specific.

I am suspicious of the Samsung KEIS software.  It does not behave very well.  It takes several attempts to connect successfully and If I leave my phone connected for several hours I get a screen asking me to ACTIVATE Windows.  I have seen this mentioned by others.

I also have had calls saying my computer was trying to access the Internet, but I blew the guys off (not very nicely either) as pranksters or hackers.  They identified themselves as Microsoft Support, but they had foreign accents and were not very believable.

More to come.

I am investigating this right now. I received a warning from COMODO that this new program was trying to access the internet. I then found a forum that mentioned this program, MASetupCleaner.exe, is a part of the Samsung media package. I had just installed this package to allow connection of a Samsung Galaxy cellphone to the computer.

I will post more when I know more. Right now, I suspect that this is a safe program. I do not yet know its purpose. It can't be bad to have a clean setup :-)