Flvplayer.dmg hidden in my trash is this a virus?

My macbook started acting very strangely such as having lots of adverts and unwanted pages opened, however decided to read a little about it from mac support and running the adwareMedic so it was very helpful i also decided to run avast mac security as well, which i found about more than 60 infections sadly but the problem is avast can not delete any of them for some strange reason ( Failed to delete /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/$Recycle.Bin/S-1-5-21-1291954073-775205281-3422821461-1001/$R 193Z23.exe. ) and ( Failed to delete /Users/rafatjahandideh/.Trash/FlvPlayer1 (1).dmg.).. I have my mac for the last 5 years and i never came across this.. can anyone please advise me on this matter?

First, you need to remove Avast. It has a long and troubling history of false positives, coupled with too close a relationship with adware makers (and even included an adware feature at one point recently). It should never be used.
As to the malware it found, the ones you mention are either on your Bootcamp partition, and should be dealt with within Windows rather from the Mac side, or are already in the trash on your Mac. Some of the rest may very well be false positives. In any case, though, you should never allow anti-virus software like Avast to remove infected files. See:
How to remove infected files
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