Molly, Sorry for the delay in responding. Thanks for the dbl checking of my application. I am tending to think my problem is my anti-virus. It started to also flag the exe files as being malicious. I was able, after much aggravation to copy the exe file to another machine and it to flagged it. The only thing is they both are running the exact same anti-virus and I am thinking that in their last update, they got a definition file that makes them flag that particular exe file as being bad. I have tried other existing projects and created a few new test ones and all of them are fine. So I think that was my issue from the beginning. Thanks to all for your assistance and thoughts. Oh, and I also did run a full scan on my machine (using BitDefender & MalwareBytes) and it came out clean.
BZMan24