Updating adobe flash player fails?

I have a message asking me to update my adobe flash player plug in and when I click “update” a chrome window opens and briefly shows an adobe window before going blank! Same thing happens with firefox on my windows 7 machine.

It looks like it is trying to connect to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ but all I see is this blankpage.

Please can someone advise as to what I need to do to update flash player

You can download it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html