diff --git a/Build.PL b/Build.PL
index e0fcfa3..3589825 100644
--- a/Build.PL
+++ b/Build.PL
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ my $build = Module::Build->new(
         'LWP::Simple'               => 0,
         'perl'                      => 5.006,
         'Test::CPAN::Meta::YAML::Version' => '0',
+        'ExtUtils::Manifest'        => 0,
     },
     build_requires => {
         'Test::More'                => '0',
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 71606d6..e8fa706 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     - some pod improvements (jquelin)
     - fix rt#65903 - no more Test::YAML::Meta::Version on CPAN (jquelin)
     - replace YAML::Syck with YAML::Any (rurban)
+    - no_symlinks checks only files in MANIFEST, use ExtUtils::Manifest::maniread (rurban)
 
 0.85    2009-07-12, Alexandr Ciornii
     - fix fails on non-Win32
diff --git a/lib/Module/CPANTS/Kwalitee/Files.pm b/lib/Module/CPANTS/Kwalitee/Files.pm
index 357a0f1..7bd47fa 100644
--- a/lib/Module/CPANTS/Kwalitee/Files.pm
+++ b/lib/Module/CPANTS/Kwalitee/Files.pm
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use Data::Dumper;
 use Readonly;
 use Software::LicenseUtils;
 use File::Slurp            qw(slurp);
+use ExtUtils::Manifest;
 
 sub order { 10 }
 
@@ -60,11 +61,14 @@ sub analyse {
     $me->d->{size_unpacked}=$size;
 
     # find symlinks
+    my $manifest = -f catfile($distdir, 'MANIFEST')
+                   ? ExtUtils::Manifest::maniread(catfile($distdir, 'MANIFEST'))
+		   : {};
     my @symlinks;
     foreach my $f (@dirs, @files) {
-        my $p=catfile($distdir,$f);
+        my $p = catfile($distdir,$f);
         if (-l $f) {
-            push(@symlinks,$f);
+            push(@symlinks,$f) if $manifest and exists $manifest->{$f};
         }
     }