MacOS – disallow allow apps downloaded from

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In Security & Privacy / General / Allow Apps downloaded from:, how to dis-allow apps again after you have allowed?

I am asking simply because I have installed some software that I would like to stop from having these privileges.

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While looking for similar I found this link on here - info about how to reverse 'enable' in Terminal might help?

Allow applications downloaded from anywhere in macOS Sierra

Specifically this section:

Granted this is a little overkill, but it does the job reliably. It can be re-enabled immediately after launching the application with

sudo spctl --master-enable