Mac uses the launchd daemon to start processes on boot time, much like the init.d scripts in Linux. Except, launchd has a configuration file (with an extention .plist) for each such process, and these files are in a few different places. So if you want to stop an auto launch, you will be hunting around, which I just did.
The official doc states all the locations a plist file.
In my case, I was using a educational prototype from UW called vanish. This spawns a couple of processes using launchd. So if I kill the processes, they come right back up. I found the plist files under ~/LaunchAgents and removing them did the trick.
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