what is masetupcleaner.exe

MASetupCleaner.exe looks, according to some of the replies already listed, to be an artifact of a Samsung software product (Kies). Just uninstalled kies, did a restart, and got a UAC flag citing masetupcleaner, that I denied. I decided to search for it by name and ended up here. I would advise never ever ever install any Samsung software, it came stock on this machine. More importantly, don't buy any Samsung products. Their RD department is the absolute worst. Samsung alters their hardware, then have to write proprietary drivers software to get it to work. They do not follow standards. Anything you can find in China works longer and better than Samsung. They RD the **** out of a product to come up with selling points that are unique, like Kies. Problem is when they send 'the next big thing' to market they stop fixing bugs, stop updating drivers for their altered hardware, and start telling customers experiencing problems to do a 'factory reset' or upgrade to a newer device because something on the $1200 device you have does not support it. The fruit guys do the same thing, but at least you can measure their device's usefull life cycle in years not months like Samsung. I am on my second Samsung laptop, 1.5 years after purchase they finally replaced it, but not without a fight. They stopped updating their proprietary driver software package for the AMD6490HD within 6 months of my purchase from the big blue box buy place. Similar problems with the newer laptop that all link back to their proprietary drivers. The same goes for the Siii I have. Talked the pinkT phone company into sending me an SiiiLTE (with newer OS and newer Samsung apps) to try and resolve an intermittent data connection with phone. The SiiiLTE was way worse, in nearly every way. I was able to compare nearly everything between the two phones, side by side. Then I sent it back.

F Samsung, F their developers, F their products, and F their management for hiring douche bags. If I had my way, the next big thing would be my foot in Samsucks azzzz....

I did just find the file in the windows directory, and deleted it. Hopefully that is the last I see of it.

Good luck

no one know, MaSetupCleaner.exe is ****. and you have to maunal uninstall it, use AirDroid it can the same as kies, if i know before i buy a samsung galaxy s3 mini, there was/are this secure problem, i never will got that

I updated Windows Vista to Windows 8. Then I installed Keis software which did not work in Windows 8. I uninstalled Kies software and now every time I turn on or restart my computer pops up a window asking if I wish to run MaSetupCleaner.exe? I think this is not normal. What can I do to eliminate this? What can happen if MaSetupCleaner.exe runs? Did you call to Toshiba? What they said?

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.