Yes, it shows up in the Appearenace > Widgets section.
When I develop sites to customers, I usually add some custom widgets (Which I use also CSS to make them appear in that page in other than the default ones) and I also unregister any of the default widgets that should not be used on each particular site. In that, I minimize mistakes and makes the admin panel being specified to the needs of each site. (I also remove other un-needed menus and do so other customizations).
Anyway, I couldn’t unregister that Akismet widget, so in order to hide it in this case I just use cdd to hide it.
@ashblue, if you want you can add this to theme’s functions.php file, it will not unregister the widget, but will just hide it, which in this case is good enough –
add_action('admin_print_scripts', 'tc_additional_admin_css');
function tc_additional_admin_css() {
ob_start();?>
<style>
#widget-1_akismet {display:none;}
</style>
<?php echo $x = ob_get_clean();
}
