what is masetupcleaner.exe

Although Kies software is not the issue here - I've never seen such a **** software which makes one of the most popular telephone series almost impossible to use. Fortunately, there are other, actually working mobile phone management software out there. However, I got the masetupcleaner dialogue window after I uninstalled Kies... so uninstalling did not help.

Just ran into this issue after uninstalling Samsung Kies and wanted to pass what I learned. 

I found that these files were installed by Samsung Kies and not cleaned up after uninstalling.  I ended up moving them into a temporary location.  All files below are in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory.  

Libraries – DLL files:

cis-2.4.dll

issacapi_bs-23.dll

issacapi_pe-2.3.dll

issacapi_se-2.3.dll

MACXMLProto.dll

MaDRM.dll

MaJGUILib.dll

MAMACExtract.dll

MaXMLProto.dll

MK_Lyric.dll

MSCLib.dll

MSFLib.dll

MSLUR71.dll

MTTELECHIP.dll

MTXSYNCICON.dll

muzaf1.dll

muzapp.dll

muzwmts.dll

Audio Plugins - AX files:

3DAudio.ax

muzdecode.ax

muzmp4sp.ax

muzmpgsp.ax

muzoggsp.ax

Executables – EXE files:

MASetupCleaner.exe

muzapp.exe

My guess is that these files were left here because some of the DLLs are shared and other files are reference files for the shared DLLs.  After removing them, I have receive no popups or system errors.

I'm using windows 7x64, but had similar grief with this MASetupCleaner.exe. Damn thing (KIES) never managed to connect to my phone, just kept annoying me with messages about updates. So last week I uninistalled it, today when I booted up I get this masetupcleaner.exe message. Well I've never heard of "make any" software so I denied it.

Final solution ? Start regedit, search for masetupcleaner. Press delete. Then OK in the message box. Rinse and repeat as necessary. And ... it's gone :).

I found this after uninstalling Kies as well...I just searched the drive using Explorer then deleted the masetupcleaner.exe file and ran Ccleaner to permanently delete it along with other items left behind by Samsung Kies uninstall.  Computer is working great now, no boot up messages from Kies.  Whatever you do, don't delete any files from the SysWow64 folder in Windows although that is where the MAsetupcleaner.exe resides.  Hope this helps!

I have joined your club today, after I have installed KIES and then I have replaced it with KIES3 (a more advanced version for mobile devices running on Android 4.3 and later) on my PC.

So far I have declined just once, on the very first apparance, to let MASetupCleaner.exe to run, and the safety question has not shown up on the very next reboot.

Like everyone who has posted in this forum, I have safety scanned the whole directory where that uninvited program file has been stored and I have checked several responses among those reported by Google.

With a little more personal investigation, I have found the webpage published by the Corean software house MarkAny (www.markany.com) that describes their product has been designed to support the Content DRM for Samsung's KIES Media Player:

http://www.markany.com/eng/?page_id=82

My concern for a possible safety threat is now substantially over.