Can I prevent flash player installer dialog on non-administrative users?

User emailed the help desk today and it says "Adobe Flash Player 11.9 Installer".
"The installation encountered errors:
You must have administrative privileges to install Adobe Flash Player. Please log on with administrative privileges and try again". They clicked Quit, the only button, but they asked what should they do if they encounter this again?
What can we do so regular users out in our field (150 or so) are never bothered with this nasty message? She stated this appeared after she logged into her computer.
We are getting out of the practice of running end users as Local Administrators. While it is quite a painful transition, the added security benefits outweigh the additional work required for us to support such a fundamental change in our environment.

Hi Keith,
It appears your user received a notification to update the outdated version of Flash Player. Since you're users are non-Admin and Admin permissions are required to install, I recommend disabling notification auto-updates on the system and managing updates to your users via some other method. To disable auto-updates, edit the mms.cfg file as follows:
AutoUpdateDisable=1
The file is located at:
Win 32-bit: \Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash
Win 64-bit: \Windows\SysWow64\Macromed\Flash
OS X: /Library/Application Support/Macromedia
Note that disabling updates in this manner also disables background updates, if you have opted into background updates. The Adobe Flash Player Administration Guide for Flash Player | Adobe Developer Connection contains several strategies for deploying and updating Flash Player outside of notification auto-updates.
11.9 is quite old and is not being updated with security releases, leaving your users vulnerable to security threats. Unless there's a compelling reason to keep your users on 11.9, I highly recommend updating Flash Player to either the latest release (currently version 16) which receives regular feature updates, bug fixes, and security fixes; or the Extended Support Release (currently version 13) which receives only regular security updates, no feature updates or bug fixes.
Maria

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