Well, as it turns out it was indeed Little Snitch’s handy “automatically deny after 60 seconds” setting that was keeping me from seeing what was going on with dashboardadvisoryd. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the window that popped up for me. As you can see, it’s parent PID is 1, which is launchd, so it really is a periodic service fired off by launchd.

I’ve now added a permanent Deny rule to Little Snitch for this, as I don’t really approve of this check-in procedure by Apple to verify the widgets I’ve installed. Of course, now I really want to get a license of Little Snitch for my wife’s iBook…

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