Fast on the feels of the Acrobat Reader post I wrote, Flash Player decided to start annoying the users with
Arghhhhhhhh!
Adobe has a “new” method to disable auto updates.
Long story short, create a mms.cfg file with the following contents:
AutoUpdateDisable=1
and drop it into the %windir%\system32\macromed\flash directory
Much longer Adobe update story here.