diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index b4498772..b4c95bad 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ function JSZip() {
     //   "folder/" : {...},
     //   "folder/data.txt" : {...}
     // }
-    this.files = {};
+    // NOTE: we use a null prototype because we do not
+    // want filenames like "toString" coming from a zip file
+    // to overwrite methods and attributes in a normal Object.
+    this.files = Object.create(null);
 
     this.comment = null;
 
diff --git a/lib/object.js b/lib/object.js
index 1c9d8e80..aec3db78 100644
--- a/lib/object.js
+++ b/lib/object.js
@@ -179,16 +179,16 @@ var out = {
      */
     forEach: function(cb) {
         var filename, relativePath, file;
+        /* jshint ignore:start */
+        // ignore warning about unwanted properties because this.files is a null prototype object
         for (filename in this.files) {
-            if (!this.files.hasOwnProperty(filename)) {
-                continue;
-            }
             file = this.files[filename];
             relativePath = filename.slice(this.root.length, filename.length);
             if (relativePath && filename.slice(0, this.root.length) === this.root) { // the file is in the current root
                 cb(relativePath, file); // TODO reverse the parameters ? need to be clean AND consistent with the filter search fn...
             }
         }
+        /* jshint ignore:end */
     },
 
     /**
diff --git a/test/asserts/load.js b/test/asserts/load.js
index c89978d5..ce073cc3 100644
--- a/test/asserts/load.js
+++ b/test/asserts/load.js
@@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ QUnit.module("load", function () {
         })['catch'](JSZipTestUtils.assertNoError);
     });
 
+    JSZipTestUtils.testZipFile("Load files which shadow Object prototype methods", "ref/pollution.zip", function(assert, file) {
+        var done = assert.async();
+        assert.ok(typeof file === "string");
+        JSZip.loadAsync(file)
+        .then(function (zip) {
+            assert.notEqual(Object.getPrototypeOf(zip.files), zip.files.__proto__);
+            return zip.file("__proto__").async("string");        })
+        .then(function(result) {
+            assert.equal(result, "hello\n", "the zip was correctly read.");
+            done();
+        })['catch'](JSZipTestUtils.assertNoError);
+    });
+
     JSZipTestUtils.testZipFile("load(string) handles bytes > 255", "ref/all.zip", function(assert, file) {
         var done = assert.async();
         // the method used to load zip with ajax will remove the extra bits.
diff --git a/test/ref/pollution.zip b/test/ref/pollution.zip
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c673c0a0
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