Verify Source of Upgrade Installs

Dear Sir or Madam,
How can I verify that the suggestions to upgrade and the actual code being installed on my computer originates with Adobe?
Since the Adobe Updater(s) do not use the browsers, the typical ways of verifying the originating URLs is unavailable. There appears to be no verification that the update or the actual code being loaded into my computer originates with Adobe. How can I verify that the "upgrade" has not been forged, or that the Adobe installer is not being used by hackers or cyberterrorists to install malware on my computer? I'm sure you guys must have thought of a way for your customers to verify that the code being loaded into our machines is really from Adobe, but I can't find any way to do that. The only indication seems to be that the pretty logos and stuff all match the look of Adobe products, but anyone can capture that stuff these days.
I can find documentation about this issue in neither the updaters nor your online help. There is no crytographic verification. There isn't even a way to verify certificates against websites with the updaters. At least I can't find one.
Please help. I want to upgrade my Adobe products, but I can find no way to verify that these things bouncing around the bottom of my screen actually have anything at all to do with Adobe, or will actually connect to an Adobe website to install exclusively Adobe code on my computer. How can I verify that someone has not forged an update notice, and is using the Adobe Updaters to install malware on my computer? Please. Tell me. Please.
Thank you.
Sherwin Gooch

If you are skeptical about where the updates are coming from you can get them yourself manually from an Adobe web site page:
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https://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/

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