diff --git a/src/detect-engine.c b/src/detect-engine.c
index b447db27a6..e33d8f2d8b 100644
--- a/src/detect-engine.c
+++ b/src/detect-engine.c
@@ -238,8 +238,8 @@ static uint8_t DetectEngineCtxLoadConf(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx) {
         }
     } else {
         SCLogInfo("You have not supplied a value for "
-                  "detect-engine.sgh-mpm-context. Using default value of \"auto\"");
-        de_ctx->sgh_mpm_context = ENGINE_SGH_MPM_FACTORY_CONTEXT_AUTO;
+                  "detect-engine.sgh-mpm-context. Using default value of \"full\"");
+        de_ctx->sgh_mpm_context = ENGINE_SGH_MPM_FACTORY_CONTEXT_FULL;
     }