Security and Update Notification Pop-ups

[BlueSkyID]

With the recent very malicious scam e-mail which is supposed to hold a link to the Barack Obama acceptance speech, many people have been concerned with their Flash Player and it's update processes. As you know, the scam link takes them to a page but it notifies them they cannot play the movie without a Flash Player update. Of course, most people click on the link and instead of a Flash Player update, they install a key-logger trojan (one report is of a rootkit).
Since we've informed people of this attack, they have said they've recently gotten Flash Player pop-ups on their computer with the notification that they need to update their Flash Player to the latest version. My Help Desk says that they have never seen that before, so they are concerned that it is another attack method.
Does Adobe Flash Player check for updates and notify the user when an update is required?
We've told our customers to go to adobe.com and download directly from there to ensure there is not a security risk. However, we know many of them will likely click on links in a pop-up or e-mail.
Thanks for any insight into this.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

We do have an autoupdate mechanism that would do this..

If you have access to the machines you can control it:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=16701594