That may be ordinary behaviour you are seeing. There are 2 msiexec processes associated with an installation - the client-side exe and the server-side service process. After the msiexec service has been used for something (installation, repair, etc), it persists for a while (10 minutes maybe ?) in case it is needed again. You can probably put the chainsaw back in the shed :)
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