diff --git a/salt/strelka/filecheck/filecheck b/salt/strelka/filecheck/filecheck
index ea7186793..758248083 100644
--- a/salt/strelka/filecheck/filecheck
+++ b/salt/strelka/filecheck/filecheck
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from watchdog.observers import Observer
 from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
 
 with open("/opt/so/conf/strelka/filecheck.yaml", "r") as ymlfile:
-    cfg = yaml.load(ymlfile)
+    cfg = yaml.load(ymlfile, Loader=yaml.Loader)
 
 extract_path = cfg["filecheck"]["extract_path"]
 historypath = cfg["filecheck"]["historypath"]