what is masetupcleaner.exe

I found this page, like most people after uninstalling the garbage Kies programme. Up popped the "MASetup" as described hense my search.

If this happens every time I log on I'm going to need some kind soul to advise me how to get rid of this annoyance. Hope someone can help

I spent several hours yesterday trying to get Kies to work on my Windows Vista computer, largely to no avail. On starting the computer this morning, I got the MAsetupCleaner.exe request.  Being suspicious, I looked up MAsetupCleaner and found this page. As a consequence, I have now uninstalled Kies.

I have quite a few Samsung products, which I find to be of good quality and easy to use but Kies, which is clearly badly produced software, has put a question mark over the company as far as I am concerned.

I just installed the Kies package (Kies_2.5.0.12114_1_17.exe) downloaded from Samsung last week.  I installed it on a Windows 8 system that was clean.  There was no MASetupCleaner.EXE on the system.

 

After completing the Kies installation MASetupCleaner.EXE did show up in the Windows/WOW64 folder.  It had a date of 11/28/2012.  There were several other programs that were also installed in that folder with the same date.  I did a system restart at this time and rechecked.  They were still there.

 

Next using the control panel, I performed an uninstall of Kies hoping to see that the programs that Kies installed were gone.  No such luck, they are still there.

 

I then did another restart which resulted in a message that sais "do you want this program to make changes to your system"  Yes or No.  while getting a pen and pencil the message went away.

 

I then did another restart which failed and required a second try which worked.

 

Bottom line, I believe this Keis software is a problem and should not be installed.  I will call Samsung on Monday to find out more.  The Software that is the problem is created by MarkAny Inc.  Info can be found by right clicking on the properties of related files and looking at the details.

 

... Marvin, did you have any luck with Samsung after?

I installed Kies last night to attempt backing up all my phone data, so I could do a much needed hard reset on my Galaxy 3 in hopes of resolving some major issues with battery life/calibration. Has to top the list for worst software ever. I received the MAsetupCleaner.exe request earlier this morning when I started up my laptop...

Any updates on this latest mess created by the Samsung Kies software?...

Received a request to run MASetCleaner.exe the first time today. SAMSUNG Kies was installed on Dec 6, 2012 (ca 3 weeks ago), and uninstalled a minute ago... Because initial setup was not done by me, I assume that the same request message have come earlier too and had been accepted then.

However, uninstallation related mainly to other problem solving case : have any of you experienced changes in Windows hibernation function after installing Kies ? I noticed that my Vista doesn't stay hibernated any more, instead Windows resumes immediately after hibernation mode has been reached (so basically it's working like an immediate restart). I launch hibernation from PCI DigitalTV software in order to record TV programs and do not want to keep computer on all the time.

Next I will make sure that Vista's hibernation is enabled and test the function again.