diff --git a/src/detect-engine.c b/src/detect-engine.c
index f6134cfd2e..b447db27a6 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 full");
-        de_ctx->sgh_mpm_context = ENGINE_SGH_MPM_FACTORY_CONTEXT_FULL;
+                  "detect-engine.sgh-mpm-context. Using default value of \"auto\"");
+        de_ctx->sgh_mpm_context = ENGINE_SGH_MPM_FACTORY_CONTEXT_AUTO;
     }