It does still run even if you've killed dashboard off. I use little snitch to monitor all of my network traffic and I can see when dashboardadvisory tries to connect up. I've promptly dissallowed any activity. I don't care if my widgets are up to date because I'll never be using dashboard. It is very intersting to see what phones home and what doesn't... and little snitch will be happy to show you what does and what doesn't. It's well worth the $25 to me.
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